Grade+two

Here is the list of subjects for grade two. Put your lessons, links, or resources under the appropriate subject.

=__**Math**__= [|Math Worksheets]- here is a site with worksheets to help students get extra practice with concepts taught in math. [|Dinosaur Math]- here is a math sheet that gets students to practice addition and subtraction and also uses a dinosaur theme. [|Dinosaur Math]- here is another sheet with addition and subtraction and uses the dinosaur theme. [|How Big is a Dinosaur]- here is a dinosaur activity that gets students to compare the size of dinosaurs to things that we see in our daily lives. [|Counting Wildflowers]- here is a lesson that gets students to add and subtract with the help of literature and the book __Counting Wildflowers__. [|Ten Frames]- here is a template for making ten frames. [|Ten Frame Tool]- here is an interactive game for students that uses ten frames to help them recognize numbers and how many there are. =**__Social__**=

__**[|Module 1: Classroom and School Community]**__
[|Introduction to Communities]- this is a lesson plan that introduces students to communities. It teaches students what communities are and the different types of communities.

__**[|Module 2: Our Community]**__
[|The Making of a Community]- great lesson that teaches students about the community that they live in and what makes up a community. This also allows students to work in groups to make a community out of cereal boxes.

__**Other Resources:**__
[|Holidays and the World]- this is a great lesson that integrates technology. It teaches students about the different holidays cultures celebrate around the world.

=__**Science**__=

__**[|Core Unit: Habitats]**__
[|Habitat Lessons]- here is a lesson that gets students to go outside and interact with nature. This links to the core unit of Habitats in the grade 2 science curriculum. [| Habitat for Sale]- a lesson that gets students to advertise a habitat for sale. Gets students to learn more about habitats as well as looking at how to create advertisements. [|Habitats]- a great site with everything that you need to teach your students about habitats. It also gives you ideas for teaching the higher grades about habitats as well.

__**[|Core Unit: Weather]**__
[|Weather Unit]- here is a themed unit for weather. It may need to be adapted for grade 2 students.

__**[|Optional Unit: Air and Water]**__
[|Three States of Water]- here is a lesson that teaches students about the three states of water.

__**[|Optional Unit: Dinosaurs]**__
[|Interactive Games on Dinosaurs]- this is a great site with activities and interactive games to help you teach the dinosaur unit in grade 2 science. [|Dinosaur Eggs]- a lesson that provides you with a recipe to make dinosaur eggs. [|Dinosaur Games]- great site with a variety of activities for kids that help them learn about dinosaurs.

__**Other Resources:**__
[|Science Units and Activities]- this site has units and lessons that cover the core units in grade 2 science. [|Science and Technology]- create site that incorporates technology while teaching about topics in grade 2 science.

=__**Visual Arts**__=


 * Paper Mache Puppets**- I did this with a grade 1/2 class but would probably be easier with older grades.

Objectives: Students will learn about paper mache and work with it. Students will work carefully and slowly to create their best work. Students will work together to insure that no one gets left behind.

Day 1:

Set: Move desks and cover the floor with garbage bags. Show students how to put the paper mache on the balloon. Give each student a balloon and a dish with paper mache and pieces of newspaper.

Development: Allow students time to cover their balloon with newspaper. When students finish they can help someone else who is not finished.

Closure: Get students to clean up their work space and put the desks back.

Day 2:

-Allow balloons to dry (approximately 18 hours). Repeat this process until balloon is hard. (may need up to three coats but two for sure).

Day 3: - Get students to think of what they want their puppet to look like. (color, hair color, eyes, etc). -When balloons are dry set out the paint that students want to paint their balloons. Get them to paint their balloons and give it a couple of coats. Bring a variety of different colors of wool get students to pick the color that they want and hot glue the hair on the balloon. Students can either paint their eyes, nose, ears, mouth on or they can cut it out of construction paper and glue it on. Then display them for the school to see. I gave them each little bowls to stand them up in.

__**Pablo Picasso Lesson**__
-Identify many different shapes in own surroundings and in art works. -Look at the work of the artist Pablo Picasso.
 * Objectives:**

-White computer paper. -Pencil/paper -Markers/pencil crayons -Picture of abstract ball player
 * Materials:**

-Talk about Pablo Picasso and his abstract ball player work. -Ask students what they see in the picture. -Turn and talk with a partner about what they see and what they think it is. -Get students to share ideas.
 * Set:**

-Give students a piece of paper, and they need a pen or a pencil. -Get students to close their eyes and put their pencil on their paper. -They are not to lift their pencil off the page until they are told to. (approximately a minute).
 * Development:**
 * Step 1**

-Review kinds of shapes. -Get them to take a marker and go over any shapes that they can find in their pieces. They they take pencil crayons and color the shapes.
 * Step 2**

-Go with a partner and look at each others work and try to come up with a title for each others work. -Do this a couple of times to give them more options.
 * Closure:**
 * Step 3**

=__**Dance**__= =__**Drama**__= __**Topic: Pirates**-__ __**Unit: Sources of Inspirations**__ - go into a circle. The first person starts by making an action. The next person copies their action and then they make their own and the next person copies and so on until everyone has gone. - Once everyone has had a turn then read the book How I Became a Pirate.
 * Set:**

- Play any room in a ship. - Pick a place in a pirate ship (get students to brainstorm places). - If large group then split students into two groups so everyone gets a chance. (The groups do not need to do the same room.) - Each person in the group takes turns going into the room on the ship and acting something out (ex. washing dishes), then the next person goes in and continues the action or starts a new one. - When everyone has gone see what kind of story the students created.
 * Development:**

- Play slumbering pirates. - Ask for a couple of students to be it and the rest of the students to spread out and sit down on the floor. - The people who are it go around and make the others try and move or laugh without touching them. - When you get caught you help the people who are it.
 * Closure:**

=__**Music**__= =__**Phys.ed**__=

Educational Games
Divide the class into 2 teams. Discuss safety concerns of the game. One team will go on the end line and the other team will spread out inside of the play area with each member standing on a star that is placed on the floor. Team on the end line are the space travelers first, and their objective is to run across the galaxy to the opposite end line without being tagged by an alien standing on a star. Aliens must have one foot on the star at all times during the game, and they cannot move the star. Try to set the stars up close enough to each other to practice dodging techniques. Space travelers can run back across whenever they are ready and aliens need to be aware of students coming from both directions. If tagged the space travelers must put their hands on their head, and wait until fellow space travelers tag them on their way across. When tagged the frozen traveler is back in the game. Switch aliens and space travelers every 5-10 minutes.
 * Space Invaders**

- Ask for a volunteer to tell us what the movie monsters inc is about. - They are pretending to be a human who are in their room. Then a monster comes in and scares them. ( when music stops) - Place hula hoops in different places on the floor. - Put some up beat music on and get students to walk around traveling to different places. - When the music stops they have to quickly go to a hula hoop and get in. - They do not want to be the last one to find a hula hoop. - When they find a hula hoop they need to roar once like a scary monster. - If they are that means that they have been spotted. - They can still play though. - As students get use to this start taking out hoola hoops, so more people have to stand in each one.
 * Monsters Inc.**

- Ask students for three different types of cars. - Get students into these three different groups. - One person is it that person will be known as the sales person. - They call out one of these three cars. - When yours is called out you want to get to the other side of the gym without being caught. - If you are caught you sit down where you were caught and without moving you can tag other people. - If the sales person calls out car lot then everyone has to try and get to the other side of the gym.
 * Car Lot**

- Gets students to sit in a circle with their thumbs in the air and their eyes closed. - Go and touch two thumbs and these will be the two students who are it. - This is played just like tag the only difference is that no one knows who is it except the two that got their thumbs touched. - If you get caught you can do ten jumping jacks and join the game again. ( Or any other activity as long as they get to come back in to the game or they are active.)
 * Surprise Tag**

- Split the students into two groups. - groups huddle and pick what they want to be without letting the other team know (witches, goblins, gnomes). - when decided they go on the end line and the teacher will say go. - They walk towards each other saying witches, goblins, gnomes, (repeat as many times needed, depends on size of playing area). -On the count of three they show what they are (everyone on the team shows the same thing). Witches will be at a high level, goblins at medium level, and gnomes at a low level. - Witches will chase goblins. - Goblins chase gnomes. - Gnomes chase witches.
 * Witches, Goblins, Gnomes**

[|Phys.ed Lessons]- this is a great site that has lessons to do with your students. Also works in grade 1 and 3. [|Phys.ed Lessons for All Grades]- here is a great site that has many lessons to do with students at any grade level in phys.ed.

=__**[|Health]**__= (Click on health to get all of the objectives for these units from the Saskatchewan curriculum).

__**Fats & Oils Lesson**__
-Students will learn about the importance of having the proper amount of fat in our diets. -Students will learn what fats are good and which are bad.
 * Objectives:**

-Introduce the last food group (fats) -Ask are fats good for us? -Saturated-trans- bad (ex. butter, fast foods) -Poly/mono unsaturated-good (ex. fish, sunflower seeds) -Why do we need fats?/What do they do for us?
 * Set:**

-Do Experiment -Ask students for their predictions.
 * Development:**

-After twenty minutes come back and look at results.
 * Closure:**

-You can find out if a food contains fat by rubbing it on a piece of brown paper bag. If food contains quite a bit of fat, a translucent spot will appear where you have rubbed. (Translucent means that light will pass through the spot, but you won’t be able to see objects through the spot). Water in food will also produce a translucent spot, but a water spot will disappear when the water dries.
 * About the Experiment:**

-Brown paper bags -Measuring spoons -Marker
 * Equipment:**

-1 uncooked macaroni shell -1 potato chip -1/8 teaspoon of mayonnaise -1/8 teaspoon margarine -1/8 teaspoon peanut butter -1/8 teaspoon water
 * Ingredients:**

-Rub each food item on a flat piece of brown paper bag -Label the spots with the name of the food. -Allow the spot to dry for 20 minutes. -Record on chart paper whether fat was present.
 * Procedure:**

[|Healthy Foods Lesson]- here is a good lesson teaching students to identify healthy foods.

[|Nutrition Unit]- here is a site that has a good nutrition unit.

[|Nutrition Games]- great games and lessons to help students learn about the food groups.

[|Importance of the Food Groups]- here is a lesson that teaches students about the food groups and why they are important.

__**Body Systems: hearts and lungs**__
[|Heart worksheets]- worksheets for students to print that help them teach students about the heart.

__**Unit 3: Safety**__
[|Safety Activities]- here are some safety lessons and projects that you can do with your students at all ages. [|Playground Safety]- here is a lesson on play ground safety. [|Playground Safety Experiment]- here is a lesson that teaches students about playground safety using an experiment. It also allows the class to come up with a list of rules for the playground.

__**Unit 4: Self-Esteem**__
=__**Language Arts**__=

__**Personal and Philosophical Context- (Fears, My Body, and Hobbies)**__
[|My Body]- here is a lesson that teaches students about their body and uses language arts to get the message across.

__**Imaginative and Literary Context- (Surprise and Ending, Monsters and Giants, If I were.., Do you believe it, Author studies, Fables, and Humor in print)**__
[|Author Study Ideas]- here is a list of authors and ideas that you can do for an author study. [|Eric Carle Author Study]- here is a list of resources to help you do an author study on Eric Carle.

__**Environmental Context- (Weather, Air & Water, Plant Growth, Creepy Crawlers, Dinosaurs, and Magnets)**__
[|Making Dinosaurs]- here is a lesson where students make their own dinosaur and describe what it looks like. This may have to be adapted as students may need to do research.

__**Other Resources**__
[|Extra Practice]- here is a booklet that you can give to students who need extra practice. [|Comprehension Worksheets]- site that has great reading comprehension worksheets. [|Writer's Workshop]- a site about using writer's workshop in the classroom.

=__**Computers**__= [|Expectations and Activities]- this site gives teachers a list of expectations and activities for their grade 2 students.

=__**Other Resources**__= [|Activities for ESL Students]- this is a great site that provides teachers with easy hands on activities that you can do with ESL students. [|Grade 2 Resources]- site with links to grade 2 resources for some subjects.